GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



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Dipsaccm, 435. 



Dipterocarpcre, 400. 



Dipterous : t\\ o-winged. 



Disciform : disk-shape ; flr.t and circu- 

 lar, like ii disk or quoit. 



Discoidal, discoid: like a disk; or be- 

 longing to the disk ; destitute of 

 rays, 436. 



Dise'pu/otts • of two sepals. 



Disk, or disc : a fleshy expansion of the 

 receptacle of a flower, 267 : the 

 central part of a head of flowers, 

 ns opposed to the border, 430 ; the 

 face of any flat body, as opposed 

 to the margins. 



Dish-bearing woody tissue, 43. 



Dish-flowers, 436. 



Dissected : cut into pieces, or nearly so. 



Dissepiment : the partition of a pod, 291. 



Dissident : bursting in pieces. 



Distichous: in two vertical ranks, 134. 



Distinct : when parts of the same name 

 arc unconnected, 251. 



Divaricate : straddling widely. 



Divergent : separating, their summits 

 inclining from each other. 



Divided: cut into distinct portions ; 

 100, fig. 263, 267. 



Dodeca- : in Greek derivatives ; twelve. 



Dodccagynia, 515 



Dodecdgynous : with twelve pistils or 

 styles 



Dodccandi io, 512. 



Dodecdndrous : with twelve (or from 

 twelve to nineteen) stamens, 280. 



Dohibi i form : axe-shaped 



Dorsal': belonging to the back (dorsum). 



Dorsal sut me, 280. 



Dotted edicts, 38. 



Dotted leaves, &.c. : marked with small 

 spots, cither colored, or transparent 

 and appearing like punctures. 



Double flowers : monstious blossoms, 

 with the petals unduly multiplied, 

 222, 229. 



Doubly compound, 1G4. 



Downy : clothed with soft pubescence. 



Dragon's blood, 414, 493. 



Droseracca?, 394. 



Drupaceous : like or pertaining to a 



Diupe: a stone-fiuit, 312 



Drupelet: a diminutive drupe, 313. 



Dryadcae, 418. 



Ducts, 45. 



Diuiiose : bushy. 



Duplicate : doubled or folded. 



Durdmen: heart-wood. 126. 



Duxirf: comparatively low in stature. 



E-, or Ex-, as a prefix, means destitute 

 of; as, ecostate, libless; cxalbumi- 

 nous, without albumen, &c. 



Eared: sec Auricnlatc. 



Earthy constituents of plants, 179, 186. 



Ebenaee.T, 442. 



Ebe'neous : black like ebony. 



Ebony, 442 



Ebi detente: destitute of bracts. 



Ebrdcteolate : destitute of bractlcts. 



Elurmous: white like ivory. 



Echinate : beset with prickles (like a 

 hedgehog). 



Ecliinulitte: rough with small prickles. 



Eele'ntate : toothless. 



Ejj'ete: past the perfect or productive 

 state. 



Effiisc: very loosely spreading. 



Eglandulose : destitute of glands. 



Elaborated sap, 53. 



Elaiagnaeerc, 467. 



E/eiters, 40, 505. 



Elatinacca:, 395. 



Elementary constituents of plants, 179. 



E/ementari/ structure of plants, 17. 



Ellipsoidal: approaching the form of 



Elliptical: oval or oblong, and with 

 both cuds similar and regularly 

 rounded. 



Emarginate : notched at the end ; 162, 

 fig. 273. 



Embracing : surrounding, as by abroad 

 . attachment. 



Embryo: the rudimentary plantlet in a 

 seed, 71.323. 



Embryo-sac, 304. 



Embrijogeny : the formation of the em- 

 bryo, 304. 



Embryonal vesicle, 306. 



Emersed: raised out of water. 



Emetine, 433. 



Enantiobldstous : with the embryo at the 

 end of the (orthotropous) seed dia- 

 metrically opposite the hilum, as in 

 Tradcscantia. 



Endeeagynia, 515. 



Eneleceigynous : with eleven pistils or 

 , styles. 



Endocarp : the inner layer of a pericarp, 

 , 310,312. 



Endocluome : the coloring matter of 

 , Al^ae. » 



Endo£cn, Endoaense, Endogenous 

 Plants, 113, 370, 482. 



Endogenous stiucture, 113. 114. 



Endoplildum : inner bark, 1 20. 



Endoplciiia: the innermost seed-coat. 

 321. 



Endorhiza?. : a svnonymc for Endogens. 



Endoihizal: said of an embryo which 

 has the radicle sheathed by the 

 cotyledon or plumule wrapped 

 around it. 



Enelotmcisp, or Endosmdsis, 33. 



E'ndospiim; the albumen of the seed, 



